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Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Library

I spend an inordinate amount of time browsing the shelves of Kansas City's downtown public library. To the staff there, I'm probably known as the weird guy in scrubs who lurks about the children's section and always leaves with more novels and compact discs than any one person could hope to consume. I've accepted the fact that I have a book problem.

In deference to you online readers, I expanded the width of my blog to accommodate the format of this drawing. The unfortunate people who saw it in the newspaper had to turn their head sideways to read it, resulting in numerous complaints of strained necks. If you'd like to view it without squinting, order as a poster here.

This is great! You are so talented. So true about the endangered periodicals.I had not been to a library in years until my 11 year old needed to find articles for a research project. When we asked the librarian for some guidance in finding the periodicals- she directed us to the computer and told us to look them up there. They don't even carry them anymore.

This is incredible! I saw your site a couple of days ago on blogs of note, and was going to ask you if you had ever done anything related to libraries, then you go and upload this!

I was going to ask, because I was looking for comics artists to contribute to our mailart call at Westminster libraries in Pimlico Library in London.

We'll be holding our show next month and were looking for artists to contribute a piece in the post for us to hang on the wall, hopefully to inspire more people to use our graphic novels section in the library, and also to draw more!

This is a very cool piece, but I'm sure you probably don't want to part with it, but we'd be eternally grateful if you could knock up something quick, on the theme of graphic storytelling, and pop it in the post to us!

How do these people pick one thing to find funny. Harry Potter's room, the unicycle and monkey, chompy chair, the raven, and every other painstakingly little detail were all amazing. If I had to choose, I think the "Adult Content Filter Testers" made me laugh more.Funny Stuff I Write

Seriously, we're still reducing the entirety of the YA genre to paranormal romance? There's a lot more to it than that, and it's a shame to see that stereotype perpetuated. Pick up a John Green or a Sarah Dessen or a Laurie Halse Anderson. They're not all unhealthy abusive supernatural relationship drama books.